What the Bible says about light and seed

The True Light "In him, (the Lord Jesus) was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world,…the world didn’t recognize him." John 1:4,9.

The Good Seed and the Weeds “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seeds in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.”Matthew 13:24,25.

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Can’t make sense of crazy

A man goes to a psychologist with a problem. “Doctor,” he says,
“I’m suffering terribly. I feel like a woman trapped inside the body of a
man. I want to become a woman.”

The psychologist responds: “No problem. We can discuss this idea
for a couple of years, and if you’re still sure you want to be a woman,
we can have a surgeon remove your penis, give you hormones for breast
enlargement and make other changes to your body. Problem solved.”

Gratified, the first patient leaves, followed by a second.
“Doctor,” he says, “I feel terrible. I’m a man but I feel attracted to
other men. I want to change my sexual preference. I want to become
heterosexual.”

The psychologist responds: “Oh no, absolutely not! That would be unethical. Sexual orientation is an immutable characteristic!”

Family therapist Adam Jessel offered a similar observation: “In
today’s climate, if Bill tells me that he is attracted to his neighbor
Fred’s young child and he wants to reduce these attractions, I, as a
therapist, can try to help him. If Bill has an unwanted attraction to
Fred’s wife, this too is something I am permitted to help him with. But
if Bill has an unwanted attraction to Fred himself, then it’s regarded
as unethical for me to help.”

If this new bill becomes law, it would not only be considered
unethical to help Bill deal with his same-sex attractions, it would be
illegal.

My mind is becoming numb. There is a
divide in our world now that can’t be breached. We watch as the portion
of humanity that has rejected God, moves deeper into delusion, and we
are stunned by what we witness. It seems impossible to those who accept
Truth, that those who reject it can become so blind and utterly
confounded and confused. We struggle with the mandate to continue to
offer the gospel when it is like trying to communicate with Helen Keller
before the breakthrough.

We speak, but it feels as if there is a
tempered glass wall between us that stops the words from reaching them.
We are shocked by the animosity that sometimes comes our way just for
living our convictions.

I have had dealings with people who are
missing some component of the human psyche. You probably have too. Some
are missing a conscience, for instance. I have had dealings with
people who, as hard as it is to believe, have no capacity for empathy.
Sometimes it is addiction that clouds the mind and strips them of this
basic human characteristic. Sometimes it may be a mental illness or
some anomaly of birth. It is true. The number of serial killers on
record bears this out.

But more and more, it seems humanity as a
whole is getting cold and heartless. The Bible said it would happen,
but still, it is not easy to face.

People with a healthy and normal
compassion and sense of concern for others, can be utterly stymied when
they come up against someone who is devoid of those traits. We
automatically try to make some sort of sense of it. We often will
assume it must be an error in our own perceptions. Or that because they
are so easily angered or offended, we must be doing something wrong in
our efforts to communicate. We have always been aware that evil exists
in this world, but we are seeing it grow and multiply at such an
alarming rate now, like something out of science fiction. Funny thing
about that, as science fiction once seemed so far-fetched, and now, it
is becoming reality.

But the truth is, we aren’t doing anything
wrong in our effort to communicate. Words still mean what they used to
mean, but it’s just that a majority of people now reject the
definition, because they reject anything not of their
own self-determination.

In attempting to reach them, we are merely
trying to do what may very well in fact have become impossible. When
someone is so far gone that they no longer believe the established laws
of nature, the spiritual laws, and no longer accept that civil
laws applies to them, they are, quite simply, beyond reach. Trying to
make them “see” what they essentially poked their own eyes out in order
not to see, is futile, and will only make another person crazy, who
tries to make sense of it all. You either have to enter into their
place of depravity and lawlessness, (their alternate “reality) or you
have to somehow reconcile it with the Truth that you know. And that is
impossible. Truth is singular.

We are living in a world where
increasingly more of the world’s population seems to actually believe
that truth is relative, that everyone can have their own “truth”. They
did not change the definition of truth, they merely misapply it. On
purpose.

It is like placing a sane person in the
midst of an asylum, and leaving them there. You don’t think they are
going to be insane along with everyone else by the end of a week or a
month?

This is why God has to remove us in the
Rapture. This message is for the ones like myself who are just about at
wits end with the course and trajectory of this world, and oh-so-ready
to get off this merry-go-round of lunacy.

Sometimes a person has to admit that there
is nothing more that they can do. We want to rescue others. It is
natural for most people to want to do that. Christians have a mandate
to throw out that lifeline to others. Noah got on the ark, as commanded
by God, seven days before the rain actually came. He had warned for a
long time of the destruction that was coming. Then he got on the ark.
For seven more days, the ark door was open, for animals continued to
come aboard, and therefore humans could also have come, but none did.

Noah worked until God told him to take his
family into the ark. At that point his work was done. I am sure that
Noah and his family were confounded and shocked by the fact not one
other human chose to get on board. Not one of the rest of
humanity believed the destruction was really going to come.

You and I who believe upon the Lord Jesus
Christ, are still warning the world, regardless of whether they are
receptive to our message or not, we keep clanging the bell. But soon
God is going to shut that door. “Rain” is going to fall for seven
days. Judgment is going to fall for seven years. People who become
believers during the tribulation, will still have an ark, but the door
that was closed supernaturally by God before the flood waters came, was
opened manually by Noah when the flood waters receded. That means they
could have opened it and gone out any time. Noah and his family
remained in the ark not because they could not get out, but because they
believed God. Everyone else perished outside the ark because they did
not believe God. Judgment is coming. Everyone is free to believe or
not believe this. In the tribulation, he who endures to the end shall
be saved.

To us who love Truth, is given the ability
to know Truth. To those who love not Truth, it is given to believe
lies. Does truth really have to be “defended”? Have we been given the
task of convincing people? Nope. Just telling them. Just speaking the
Word. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing cometh by the Word.

Jesus is coming soon. This world can’t be
“fixed”. It is destined to be destroyed by fire, and a new one will be
created. Man is not going to achieve singularity, godhood, nor immortality. The worlds religions
will unite, and that global religion will facilitate the rise of a
global government, out of which a single world leader will emerge,
Damascus will be obliterated, Israel will be attacked, all sort of
catastrophic events will bombard the Earth and its inhabitants for a
seven year period. The world’s elite will join Satan himself in waging
war against the Most High at Megiddo, and the Most High will defeat them
with the Words of His mouth alone.

This is truth. Let all the other craziness
fall by the wayside. It is not going to make sense to people who have
no familiarity with Scripture, and a lot of people for whom scripture
has been twisted, are going to embrace lunacy to whatever degree they
have already embraced false teachings. Reconciling all of the different
“versions” of the outcome that have been dreamed up by the imaginations
of men, is a lost cause and waste of energy. Constant armchair
speculation and analysis of blow-by-blow events as they happen, while
not necessarily a waste of time, will neither hasten nor delay the
timing of events. We have no more control over these events by staying
informed in real time, than if we paid no attention at all. If knowing
serves any purpose at all, it is, and should be, to motivate us to
continue to offer the gospel.

Since Christ ascended to heaven
after His resurrection, the church has been building an ark and warning
the world of judgment to come. I have been actively warning people
since 2009, and through this particular blog since 2012. God knows
when He will shut the door and when the rain will start. I don’t know
that Noah was preaching for the 100 (or 120) years while he built the
ark. I know that the fact he was building the ark was a testimony in
and of itself. A witness to a lost world. God doesn’t beg. He doesn’t
twist arms. He doesn’t force anyone. He told the disciples that in
towns where they were not received, they were to simply shake off the
dust of that place from their sandals, and move on. To those who
peddled any other gospel, they, and we, are not even to wish them “God
speed” because it is to be a partaker of their apostasy.

I am not sure that the Great Commission is
actually what some folks say it is. God told the church to go into the
world and preach the gospel to everyone. That’s not down to one
person, it is the obligation of the entire body. The question for us is
have we done our own part? Only you can answer that.

There are people who go out to meet the
fight, and there are people who sit quietly where they are, minding
their own affairs until the fight comes to them. We all have different
callings and assignments. Fighting the good fight doesn’t always mean
doing the same things. Sometimes the task changes. And sometimes, it’s
a matter of “having done all, stand” (wearing the armor) and see the
deliverance the Lord provides, the victory (for His own) and devastation
(of His enemies) which He brings about. Sometimes we are to simply “be
still and know that He is God”.

You’ll know which it is, and when, as long
as you remain attuned to Him. But please, don’t waste time caught up
in trying to make sense of “crazy”. It is a Satanic diversion designed
to rob you of peace. Let others argue and doubt, let them pursue every
theory and flit here and there behind every claim. That’s their
prerogative. It is foolish, but it is still their prerogative.

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SUICIDE WATCH

I am sure most of you have known at some time in your life a person who wanted or attempted to end their life or succeeded in doing so. Personally, I have known a number of such people. I, myself had such an episode as an adolescent.

More and more I am reading and hearing about people young, old, male, female, gender and age don´t matter that add their lives to this problem of epidemic proportion in our society. Whatever the cause, we can all do something however small to save lives.

No need to have a psych. degree or to be licensed. An understanding heart, a listening ear is sometimes all that it takes to help weaker, more sensitive people overcome the hopelessness that drives fellow human beings to discard the gift of human life.

Please, take a few minutes to read below the few examples and testimonies about suicide. And please pass it on, if that´s all you feel inclined to do. Thank you.

HE INVITES SUICIDE JUMPERS FOR A CUP OF TEA

Don Ritchie moved to a house outside Sydney, Australia, for the clifftop view. But soon he was stopping suicides by inviting potential jumpers inside for a cup of tea.

Don Ritchie has been awarded a medal for bravery and an Order of Australia (the nation’s second highest honor) for averting hundreds of would-be suicides by approaching people and offering them a cup of tea. ‘I used to sell kitchen scales and bacon cutters,’ he says. Now, ‘I’m trying to sell people life.’